Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Plan International

The Opportunity

In this role as the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist you will contribute to the success of the M&E strengthening Project by working with and supporting Country Offices to adopt and implement the new M&E approach, frameworks and system to ensure transparency and accountability to all our stakeholders and that we, as an organisation, are able to capture, store, analyse and report on our progress in a consistent and coherent way.

You will contribute to enhancing capacity in our offices to apply the above approach, principles & standards and system in order to generate and act on evidence to inform our programmes and influence and learn.

The Person

In order to succeed in this challenging and varied role, you will need:

• Expert knowledge on monitoring and evaluation of development work, across a wide range of technical areas.
• Significant experience and a strong understanding of processes, approaches, tools and methodologies that facilitate M&E, and organizational learning, that is up to date with best practices in the sector.
• Strong understanding of the realities of NGO programme management and limitations that impact programme monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Understanding of different approaches to assessing and reporting NGO programming results, across a wide variety of contexts.
• Significant experience of capacity building and upskilling of field staff and M&E staff
• Fluent in English. Capacity in one of the following: French, Portuguese, Arabic and/or Spanish will be an advantage.

Location: Flexible. Preferably East and Southern African Countries (Egypt, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Mozambique, Zambia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe) where Plan International currently has a legal entity and you have the pre-exsisting righ to work will be considered. Employment will be as per local terms and conditions.

Type of Role: 18 Month Fixed Term Contract

Reports to: Global Head of Monitoring and Evaluation

Salary: Highly Competitive 

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Please note that only applications and CVs written in English will be accepted.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy.

As an international child centred community development organisation, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realisation of children's rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

Plan International operates an equal opportunities policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all areas of the international community.